The main war of the Middle Ages

The people who fought and died at the chair, Poitiers and Azenkur did not suspect that they were living in the era of a centenary war. This war was invented by historians, for contemporaries it was a series of endless conflicts between French capitini and English plantagenet. On the French coat of arms - lilies, in English - a leopard. Everything, of course, began because of the woman. In this war, reckless love, jealousy, betrayal, courage, miracles and betrayal were closely intertwined. The well -known Russian medievalist Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya in her book unfolds a three -hundred -year panorama of battles and diplomatic intrigues in front of the reader, recreates the images of the main characters of Alienora Aquitaine, Richard Lion"s Heart, Karl the Wise and Jeanne d’Arc